Abandoning Hope
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Naruto › General
Rating:
Adult ++
Chapters:
6
Views:
1,456
Reviews:
82
Recommended:
0
Currently Reading:
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Part 6
Abandoning Hope
Part 6
By Mieren/Phantasm
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Hauling a bag of blood stained weapons and glowering in rage, Kakashi left the partially cleaned kitchen to check on his two students. He found Sasuke with three bags of similarly collected blades and soiled cleaning materials, the boy having taken the worst room in the apartment. Dazed and extremely nauseous, Sakura had fallen behind and was only partially through with the living room, but neither of the other two ninja blamed her. Depositing his trash bag near the front door, Kakashi began to help the mortified girl.
“This was a bad idea,” the silver haired man sighed when Sasuke silently joined them a little while later. “I shouldn’t have brought you two here.”
“It’s okay,” Sakura said softly, her voice shaky. She was still fighting back tears. She glanced at Sasuke, trying to read his strained expression. “He’s our friend. We want to know what happened to him.”
Kakashi nodded in understanding, but offered no new information. It wasn’t his place to tell them such sensitive details of Naruto’s torture. If the blond wanted them to know, he would tell them. The jounin wouldn’t say anything in case Naruto wanted that aspect of his tortured life kept a secret.
“Well, you can see what happened,” Kakashi said vaguely, deliberately offering them no new information. He tried to steer his students away from the details of the boy’s torture. “It’s past noon. I doubt that either of you are hungry, but we could take a break. I need to sneak some food into the hospital anyways. Naruto will burn all of my porn if I’m late with his ramen, and I can’t have that.”
“You’re putting us off,” Sakura said. Kakashi sighed. Sometimes it was a bad thing to have Kohana’s smartest chuunin on his team. “What happened to him?” Kakashi stalled again, trying to think of some way to distract them or change the subject. Sasuke spoke before he could think of anything.
“They raped him,” Sasuke said bluntly. It was not a question. Kakashi sighed but didn’t refute the statement.
“I doubt he wants it public knowledge,” the jounin said, silently ordering them to keep the information to themselves. “I don’t think he’d even be comfortable that you two know. Try not to let him know you know.” His students nodded obediently as he expected. They wouldn’t intentionally hurt their friend. Knowing that they wouldn’t have the stomach to eat after everything they had seen and learned, he issued new orders. “Take the garbage down to the bins. When you’re finished, buy some materials and begin repairs. I’ll check on you later.”
Leaving his students behind, Kakashi headed off to buy some more ramen as he had claimed. Normally, he would be more concerned with a balanced diet, but he doubted that Naruto would be up to chewing his food for a few days. Until then, he and Iruka would have to suffer the monotonous meal along with him or risk making him uneasy. For a long time, they would have to carefully observe the blond for anything out of the ordinary in his behavior. Naruto had an excellent concealing mask, and they both knew it. No one shunned his entire life could possibly be that happy. It was anyone’s guess just how unstable he really was. A jounin would break under less.
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Naruto was moved out of ICU after only four days, escaping a good three days early for three major reasons. The first was simply that the teenager was recovering at record speeds, leading to the second reason for his transfer. He was dismantling, well breaking, the medical equipment and removing both his IV and catheter, hobbling around his room and occasionally attempting to make his way down the hall with the help of his friends after he had pleaded with them to help him walk again. Said visitors were the final reason. Naruto managed to accumulate an average of six to eight unscheduled visitors a day in an area that didn’t even allow visitors. Between their constant dismantling of the cameras and attempts to help the blond learn some new techniques at his insistence, or rather at his desperate begging, the hospital was accumulating a good deal of collateral damage. While that was normal with ninja, Naruto was taking the destruction to all new levels. Documentation showed that he had set new records for pointless damage and explosions, outdoing even the most temperamental ANBU ever treated there.
Naruto had always been on the destructive side, but try to let a dozen chuunin train him various high-level techniques when he couldn’t see what he was doing and you were just asking for trouble. His attempts to form seals with one hand, missing one and a half fingers at that, had blown holes in the walls every time without fail. He had access to chakra but no real means to control it any longer.
Shikamaru stopped trying to teach him control of shadow related concepts after he’d been flung out of the window for the third time. He had been attempting to teach the now blind teenager to compensate with the darkness, but naturally the blond managed to turn it into a weapon to physically launch anything near him through walls, out windows, into the floor, and through the ceiling. It wasn’t intentional, but he was just trying to go through the motions described to him.
Neji had similarly been beaten senseless. He tried to teach the blond how to sense ripples of chakra by sending out small pulses and sensing the rebounding energy, much as bats did with sound. Apparently, Naruto did not understand the matter of ‘small’ pulses, and ended up blowing out a wall and sending poor Neji through the ceiling all the way up to the tenth floor from where he was on the second. At the time that happened, the food cart had been on its way by and as a result there was a one sided food fight that ended up with two doctors, five residents and three nurses covered head to foot in the goop that the hospital tried to pass off as food.
Only Kiba seemed to be safe since very little could be demolished in teaching Naruto how to identify people and objects by scent. Although his training was the least destructive, it was also the most annoying for all of the other visitors. As with all techniques, Naruto had to practice this one to master it, and that unfortunately involved sniffing anyone who came into arm’s reach. In his first few tries, he wasn’t careful to watch who or what he was sniffing when he yanked someone into sniffing distance. Kakashi had been completely baffled when he dropped in to visit one day and was abruptly sniffed. Naruto’s aim left a lot to be desired as he managed to cram his nose into Kakashi’s armpit, prompting him to instantly release the jounin and jerk away, gagging noisily. Laughing hysterically at his friend’s flabbergasted expression, Iruka had eventually taken pity on him and explained what was going on. He had already been snuffled a number of times and felt it was someone else’s turn to be hit.
Even knowing about the training, Naruto’s teammates didn’t respond very well to his attempts to practice. Sasuke only received a nose to the ribs and shoved the blond away. Having horrible luck, Sakura landed a good crotch-plant and reflexively slugged the blond in the back of his head.
Naruto crumpled, body going limp and consciousness slipping away from him. The last thing he heard was Iruka’s angry voice.
“What are you doing? He has a cracked skull! You could have k…”
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Sorry it’s short. I had notebooks with the story in it and I lost one of them, so I’m going to have to redo like two hundred pages. ;_; Give me incentive to work and I’ll see if I can recreate the lost work. Review!
Part 6
By Mieren/Phantasm
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Hauling a bag of blood stained weapons and glowering in rage, Kakashi left the partially cleaned kitchen to check on his two students. He found Sasuke with three bags of similarly collected blades and soiled cleaning materials, the boy having taken the worst room in the apartment. Dazed and extremely nauseous, Sakura had fallen behind and was only partially through with the living room, but neither of the other two ninja blamed her. Depositing his trash bag near the front door, Kakashi began to help the mortified girl.
“This was a bad idea,” the silver haired man sighed when Sasuke silently joined them a little while later. “I shouldn’t have brought you two here.”
“It’s okay,” Sakura said softly, her voice shaky. She was still fighting back tears. She glanced at Sasuke, trying to read his strained expression. “He’s our friend. We want to know what happened to him.”
Kakashi nodded in understanding, but offered no new information. It wasn’t his place to tell them such sensitive details of Naruto’s torture. If the blond wanted them to know, he would tell them. The jounin wouldn’t say anything in case Naruto wanted that aspect of his tortured life kept a secret.
“Well, you can see what happened,” Kakashi said vaguely, deliberately offering them no new information. He tried to steer his students away from the details of the boy’s torture. “It’s past noon. I doubt that either of you are hungry, but we could take a break. I need to sneak some food into the hospital anyways. Naruto will burn all of my porn if I’m late with his ramen, and I can’t have that.”
“You’re putting us off,” Sakura said. Kakashi sighed. Sometimes it was a bad thing to have Kohana’s smartest chuunin on his team. “What happened to him?” Kakashi stalled again, trying to think of some way to distract them or change the subject. Sasuke spoke before he could think of anything.
“They raped him,” Sasuke said bluntly. It was not a question. Kakashi sighed but didn’t refute the statement.
“I doubt he wants it public knowledge,” the jounin said, silently ordering them to keep the information to themselves. “I don’t think he’d even be comfortable that you two know. Try not to let him know you know.” His students nodded obediently as he expected. They wouldn’t intentionally hurt their friend. Knowing that they wouldn’t have the stomach to eat after everything they had seen and learned, he issued new orders. “Take the garbage down to the bins. When you’re finished, buy some materials and begin repairs. I’ll check on you later.”
Leaving his students behind, Kakashi headed off to buy some more ramen as he had claimed. Normally, he would be more concerned with a balanced diet, but he doubted that Naruto would be up to chewing his food for a few days. Until then, he and Iruka would have to suffer the monotonous meal along with him or risk making him uneasy. For a long time, they would have to carefully observe the blond for anything out of the ordinary in his behavior. Naruto had an excellent concealing mask, and they both knew it. No one shunned his entire life could possibly be that happy. It was anyone’s guess just how unstable he really was. A jounin would break under less.
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Naruto was moved out of ICU after only four days, escaping a good three days early for three major reasons. The first was simply that the teenager was recovering at record speeds, leading to the second reason for his transfer. He was dismantling, well breaking, the medical equipment and removing both his IV and catheter, hobbling around his room and occasionally attempting to make his way down the hall with the help of his friends after he had pleaded with them to help him walk again. Said visitors were the final reason. Naruto managed to accumulate an average of six to eight unscheduled visitors a day in an area that didn’t even allow visitors. Between their constant dismantling of the cameras and attempts to help the blond learn some new techniques at his insistence, or rather at his desperate begging, the hospital was accumulating a good deal of collateral damage. While that was normal with ninja, Naruto was taking the destruction to all new levels. Documentation showed that he had set new records for pointless damage and explosions, outdoing even the most temperamental ANBU ever treated there.
Naruto had always been on the destructive side, but try to let a dozen chuunin train him various high-level techniques when he couldn’t see what he was doing and you were just asking for trouble. His attempts to form seals with one hand, missing one and a half fingers at that, had blown holes in the walls every time without fail. He had access to chakra but no real means to control it any longer.
Shikamaru stopped trying to teach him control of shadow related concepts after he’d been flung out of the window for the third time. He had been attempting to teach the now blind teenager to compensate with the darkness, but naturally the blond managed to turn it into a weapon to physically launch anything near him through walls, out windows, into the floor, and through the ceiling. It wasn’t intentional, but he was just trying to go through the motions described to him.
Neji had similarly been beaten senseless. He tried to teach the blond how to sense ripples of chakra by sending out small pulses and sensing the rebounding energy, much as bats did with sound. Apparently, Naruto did not understand the matter of ‘small’ pulses, and ended up blowing out a wall and sending poor Neji through the ceiling all the way up to the tenth floor from where he was on the second. At the time that happened, the food cart had been on its way by and as a result there was a one sided food fight that ended up with two doctors, five residents and three nurses covered head to foot in the goop that the hospital tried to pass off as food.
Only Kiba seemed to be safe since very little could be demolished in teaching Naruto how to identify people and objects by scent. Although his training was the least destructive, it was also the most annoying for all of the other visitors. As with all techniques, Naruto had to practice this one to master it, and that unfortunately involved sniffing anyone who came into arm’s reach. In his first few tries, he wasn’t careful to watch who or what he was sniffing when he yanked someone into sniffing distance. Kakashi had been completely baffled when he dropped in to visit one day and was abruptly sniffed. Naruto’s aim left a lot to be desired as he managed to cram his nose into Kakashi’s armpit, prompting him to instantly release the jounin and jerk away, gagging noisily. Laughing hysterically at his friend’s flabbergasted expression, Iruka had eventually taken pity on him and explained what was going on. He had already been snuffled a number of times and felt it was someone else’s turn to be hit.
Even knowing about the training, Naruto’s teammates didn’t respond very well to his attempts to practice. Sasuke only received a nose to the ribs and shoved the blond away. Having horrible luck, Sakura landed a good crotch-plant and reflexively slugged the blond in the back of his head.
Naruto crumpled, body going limp and consciousness slipping away from him. The last thing he heard was Iruka’s angry voice.
“What are you doing? He has a cracked skull! You could have k…”
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Sorry it’s short. I had notebooks with the story in it and I lost one of them, so I’m going to have to redo like two hundred pages. ;_; Give me incentive to work and I’ll see if I can recreate the lost work. Review!